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Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length action/comedy/drama script ONLY THE BAD GUYS is a Second Round Selection in the 2022 ISA Fast Track Fellowship.
Here’s the logline:
In a dystopian world where killing a killer brings their victim(s) back to life, ex-soldier turned bounty hunter Daniela Dushane makes a killing killing killers as she walks the fine line between hero and villain (THE NICE GUYS meets THE PUNISHER).
Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length, holiday-themed black comedy, HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS, has advanced to the quarterfinals in the 2016 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition. HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS is ranked 2nd in the GLBT category of MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts and has won 10 awards/honors in the last 7 months.
This is LaPoma’s 110th award/honor for his 10 scripts.
Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length holiday-themed black comedy, HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS, is an official selection of the 2016 MAC Underground Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS has won 7 awards/honors in the last two months, including placing in both the Austin Film Festival and Page International Screenwriting Awards, and LaPoma’s ten scripts have won 95 overall.
Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length coming-of-age drama A NOBLE TRUTH is an official selection of the 2016 EyeCatcher Film Festival. A NOBLE TRUTH follows two friends who take a road trip throughout the US and Mexico in search of what unites people in a modern world slipping deeper into apathy and discord. On this trip for truth, however, it’s soon evident that this is the last thing either friend seeks (EASY RIDER meets THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES).
A NOBLE TRUTH has won 18 awards/honors.
Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length holiday-themed comedy, HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS, has advanced to the second round of the 2016 Austin Film Festival. They had this to say about the script:
“Our readers felt your script was effectively funny with nuanced and witty dialogue. Jim is a very well-rounded character with an interesting arc.”
HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS follows an asshole with a heart of gold who moves back in with his dysfunctional family after his brother attempts suicide a few weeks before Christmas, only to find that his brother is the sanest of them all (BAD SANTA meets SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK).
This is the script’s 6th award/honor in the last two months, and LaPoma’s 92nd overall for his 9 screenplays.
Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length script HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS has won 4th place in the 2016 Indie Gathering Film Festival’s Comedy screenplay category.
HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS follows an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold who moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his younger brother after his brother tries to commit suicide a few weeks before Christmas. It’s soon evident, however, that the brother is the sanest of them all.
The Media Adventures International Film Festival has chosen Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length drama SOFI’S JOURNEY as an official selection of their 2016 screenwriting competition. SOFI’S JOURNEY follows a twenty-one-year-old obsessive-compulsive Peruvian woman who travels from Lima to the USA and takes a job at a small ski resort in Montana in hopes to find love and relief from her mental illness. LaPoma’s 8 screenplays have won 82 awards/honors in the last two years.
Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length coming-of-age drama A NOBLE TRUTH is a finalist in the 2016 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest.
LaPoma’s 8 scripts have won 81 awards/honors in the last 2 years.
The FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards has advanced Jonathan LaPoma’s scripts THE WAY BACK HOME and LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova) to the quarterfinals in their 2015 competition. Both scripts are ranked in the top 2% of the more than 2,600 screenplays listed on MovieBytes.com.
LaPoma’s seven screenplays have won 71 awards/honors in the last two years.
The California Film Awards has awarded Jonathan LaPoma’s scripts THE WAY BACK HOME and LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova) as the 5th place winner and a finalist, respectively, of their 2015 competition. LaPoma’s scripts have won 69 awards/honors in the last two years.